Mitch McConnell claims that Barack Obama is holding the Gulf hostage

  As I have written about in the past, Barack Obama is going to use Rahm Emanuel’s adage that you should never let a good crisis go to waste in regards to the BP oil spill. Barack Obama is going to use this crisis as a catalyst to push through global warming legislation.

  It had been reported that Barack Obama would use his speech from the Oval Office to promote climate change legislation and he did not disappoint. While an anxious American public waited for Barack Obama to outline his plan to help BP stop the oil from leaking into the Gulf, Barack Obama instead used this as a forum to push his leftist agenda and never once mentioned what he was going to do to gain control over the immediate crisis.

  This is not the time or the place to push for a long term solution to the nation’s addiction to oil, there will be time for that after the crisis at hand is solved. Much like the borders need to be secured before immigration reform can be… nevermind, that isn’t going to happen either. What I meant to say was that while the oil is still spilling into the Gulf the president’s focus should be on stopping the oil from spilling into the Gulf; his priority should be showing the American people that he is on top of this disaster and that he will get the situation under control. But instead he has decided that it was time to persue a national energy tax claiming that “some believe we can’t afford those costs right now. I say we can’t afford not to change how we produce and use energy because the long-term costs to our economy.”

  Even Dianne Feinstein feels that the president’s priorities are misplaced, stating, “the climate bill isn’t going to stop the oil leak. Stopping the leak should come first.”

  I am not against searching for alternative energy but this is not where his focus should have been last night. Barack Obama has decided that it is more important to realize his climate change dream than it is to deal with the crisis at hand.

  Mitch McConnell summed it up best when he said Barack Obama was, “holding the Gulf hostage to a national energy tax.” That is exactly what Barack Obama is doing. Instead of focusing his attention where it should be, he has decided to politicize the oil spill to further his cap and trade agenda while neglecting the inconvenient truth that people’s livelihoods are being ruined and cap and trade will do nothing to help them.

  What better way is there to describe what Barack Obama is doing?